Several thousand monks took to the streets of Burma's second-largest city on Friday to protest against a world Islamic body's efforts to help Muslim Rohingya in strife-hit Rakhine state, organisers said.

A South Korean boy gets his head shaved by a Buddhist monk during a 'Children Becoming Buddhist monks' ceremony at Jogye temple in Seoul on May 13, 2012. Nine children will stay at the temple and learn about Buddhism for 20 days ahead of celebrations for Buddha's birthday on May 28 this year.

A Tibetan nun died after setting herself on fire in China's Sichuan province on Thursday, the official Xinhua news agency said, in the eleventh such incident involving Buddhist monks and nuns in the restive region.